Online Media Cultist

I just realized that Blogger allows you to add tags to blog posts. Actually, I must give credit where it’s due and that belongs to my online pal and fellow member of Blogcritics Magazine and The Mondo Project, Mat Brewster. I’ve seen tags appear on blogspot blogs countless times, I’m sure, but absolutely assumed that they [...]

New York, my homeland, is considering legislation that would levy a $100 fine for pedestrians who listen to a mobile audio device while crossing the street. This, in my view, is cruel and unusual punishment for the iPod set. Sure, it’s possible that listening to Slayer at 900 decibels might prevent you from seeing that Mack [...]

Yeah, I feel a little bit silly and sheepish about it, but I must admit that I don’t really get StumbleUpon. The idea behind the site is pretty simple: a downloadable tool bar add-on allows you wander around the Internet (via pressing the Stumble button) with the presumption that the more you interact with the tool [...]

A short piece by Fred of A VC fame about the time of day (early morning) that he finds to write prompted me to think of what I can only describe as the grind and crunch of blog production. This is a topic that I don’t see bloggers talk about very often. You see a great [...]

Crunchnotes notes that high profile blogger “Robert Scoble got sucked into the PayPerPost machine” because he accepted a fee from PayPerPost – a company that pays bloggers to write reviews about products and services – to speak at a conference. It’s a clever strategy on the part of PayPerPost: throw out enough money in enough different [...]